Declarative memory consists of facts and events that can be consciously recalled or "declared." Also known as explicit memory, it is based on the concept that this type of memory consists of ...

Sleep promotes the consolidation of declarative as well as procedural and emotional memories in a wide variety of tasks. Sleep improves preferentially the consolidation of memories that were encoded ...

Memorization can get a bad rap in education debates, conjuring images of mindless repetition or a “drill and kill” pedagogy. After all, why memorize something when we can look it up on our phone? But ...

A variety of cognitive and behavioral taxonomies are used to categorize AD's progression. One of the simplest ways to categorize the condition is to frame neuropsychological changes into three ...

Is making a sentence like riding a bicycle? A neat little experiment by Victor Ferreira and his co-authors suggests, as I read it, that we store a verbal style and perhaps our very character the same ...

So you're not a "10" in every which way. But you're probably pretty spectacular in some way, and definitely good enough in most areas of life. If ever there were a time to stop beating yourself up for ...

From the moment we are born, our brains are bombarded by an immense amount of information about ourselves and the world around us. So, how do we hold on to everything we've learned and experienced?

Memory is the term used to describe the storage of the vast amount of information the brain uses to perform various cognitive tasks. Different types of memories are stored by the human brain for ...

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The brain is key to our existence, but there’s a long way to go before neuroscience can truly capture its staggering capacity. For now though, our Brain Control series explores what we do know about ...